Am Dienstag 24 Juli 2007 schrieb Gilles Pelletier: > So, it seems Linus has the same problem as me(1): I'm sure he could > install Debian, but he just doesn't want to get through the hassle. Hi Gilles, What hassle exactly? The last time I tried the Debian Etch installer it was not really more hassle than inserting the Debian installer CD and hitting "Enter" all the time. While I still had the flexibility to do several installations with SoftRAID and LVM without touching a command line recently. Of course, the amount of preconfiguration may differ, but I take that as an advantage at times. Actually I did not agree what to what OpenSUSE for example did to the KDE start menu. Granted, the original one isn't a usability pioneer either, but IMHO thats no reason to make it worse than that. So I rather wait for a well thought out replacement for it in KDE 4. And actually in the interview Linus wrote about "easy to install *and* upgrade" (bold added by me). And when a distribution is easy to upgrade its Debian. Thats actually why I do not install it that often ;-). I think that Linus may not even have *tried* installing Debian and thus only talks about hearsay. So I don't take his oppinion that seriously. If he did try to install Debian and found concrete issues that would be a different case. Regards, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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